CHKDSK running on EVERY reboot

[Mark Pitman]

If I select "Turn off computer" and then "Restart", the system reboots and
when it begins to start back up it ends up running CHKDSK. If I select "Turn
off" and let it shut down and then turn the power back on CHKDSK never runs.
So far, I have turned off write caching on both of my hard drives, but that
hasn't helped. Does anyone have any other ideas? It seems like Windows is
just not completely unmounting the hard drives when I tell it to reboot.

Mark

 

[dev]

/Mark Pitman/ said:

If I select "Turn off computer" and then "Restart", the system reboots and
when it begins to start back up it ends up running CHKDSK. If I select "Turn
off" and let it shut down and then turn the power back on CHKDSK never runs.
So far, I have turned off write caching on both of my hard drives, but that
hasn't helped. Does anyone have any other ideas? It seems like Windows is
just not completely unmounting the hard drives when I tell it to reboot.

Kelly's site, below, has info on that - under "C".

 

[Mark Pitman]

OK, so I ran
"chkntfs dirty query d:"
and it came back as dirty

What exactly does that mean? That it was not properly unmounted the last
time I booted? One thing I didn't mention is that when chkdsk runs every
time, it DOES find problems and fixes them. Sometimes I lose files too. I
have two IDE har drives and it seems pretty random as to which one ends up
getting checked after the reboot.

m

 

[frodo]

Do you have a very fast system? If so, perhaps your bios needs to have a
short delay set for the IDE drives to stabilize before beginning the boot.
Check your bios for this setting, set it to 3-5 seconds, see if that
helps. [a reboot takes it down, then brings it right back up; upon comming
up the bios issues a reset to the drive; if it was just finishing
committing its cache when the reset occured it could loose data. this
wouldn't happen on a shutdown. by adding a delay you permit the drive to
commit before the reset gets issued.]

Also, have you used any util to "speed up shutdown". there are timeouts
in the registry that spec how long to wait for a service to stop before
forcing an "end process" on it. some ill conceived tweaking utils shorten
these timeouts to speed up shutdown/reset. However, if this were the
cause I'd guess you'd see the problem whether it was a restart or a
shutdown.

 

[Mark Pitman]

My system is a 1GHz Athlon. I don't remember seeing anything in the BIOS
that looked like it would add a delay before resetting the drives. I'm not
at home right now, so I can't check it. I have an ASUS A7V-E motherboard. I
forget what BIOS it is. Any ideas what that setting might be called?

m